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Carl Nielsen's fifth symphony surges with waves of intensity, one moment dwelling in harmony, the next moment exploding with discord. On this week's…
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Schumann is typically regarded as a Romantic composer, but his second symphony hearkens back to the Classical roots of his background. However, though the…
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Although born in England, composer Arnold Bax certainly drew wide thematic and cultural elements from the changing landscape of Europe. He lived briefly…
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Stemming from the idea that life may again return to living solely in the ocean, John Luther Adam's new Pulitzer Prize winning composition Become Ocean…
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A work that has only recently garnered critical acclaim and performances from world class orchestras, Mahler's mysterious seventh symphony, informally…
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Summer has gone and with it goes the soothing sounds of Mahler's 3rd Symphony, which captures the warm welcome of summer's first arrival and journeys to…
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Schumann's pastoral third symphony, "Rhenish," celebrates the rural German Rhineland. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Walter Weller…